Quick, before January is done: Sidle on over to Perceptive Travel and read the new issue.
Author: zora
Kitchens of the Future–I Haz 1!~!
So, first of all, we're feeling very suave around Winslow Place because we now have an honest-to-god island in the kitchen--just like they have in the 'burbs!
OMFG–Time Slips Away
Ah, January–month of aspirations. Now that I’m past the midpoint, I see that, really, this month must be dedicated entirely to finishing the cookbook by Feb. 1. And not to blogging, or the new cooking website. Soon, though.
Until then, consider: One nice thing about living in a public transit culture, rather than a car culture, is that the billboards are much closer. So if you have a wise-ass comment to make in response…you can make it.
(Click to zoom, if you need to.)
Spotted on the Queens-bound E platform at 53rd Street.
Self-Promotion Is So Uncool…
And since I am so fabulously cool, I guess that’s why I haven’t done it.
But I just spent 10 minutes composing a post about how you should nominate me for a Bloggie. I mean, Roving Gastronome, the blog, has been around for five years, officially, as of today! (As opposed to Roving Gastronome, the dinner party, which some of you may remember. Listen up, young whippersnappers–I’ll tell you about a supper club!)
And then I realized that in those 10 minutes, the nominations had closed.
Classic. Well, think fondly of me, please, and next year you can nominate me for “best-kept secret weblog,” and for the freakin’ lifetime achievement award. This year, I miss the cutoff date for that (starting prior to Jan. 1, 2004) by less than two weeks.
That makes me feel a little old. Whippersnappers–you still there? Let me tell you about blogging by dial-up! And the snow in those days! Oh, wait, the Victrola needs winding…back in a sec…
New CSA in Astoria
I know nothing more than what’s at the web page here, and that pickup will be at 30th Avenue and Crescent–good for all you mid-Astoria residents. Drop an email at the website to get on the list for info on the 2009 summer/fall season.
The Last of the Candied Bacon
This is not a problem most people are likely to have, but we had this bowl of candied bacon that wasn't getting any fresher.
WTF, Tartine?
I'm the last person on the Internet to know this, but the cookbook doesn't include the morning bun recipe!
Back for 2009!
I'm back from the West Coast, via deluxe Amtrak sleeper most of the way. Old school. The one drawback of train travel is that the menu in the dining car gets a little repetitive by Day 3.
Happy Holidays!
I'll be gone for a little while--off to Californ-I-A, land of the Meyer lemon.